Everyone loves animated GIFs , but you might not realize that their grainy , jerky telecasting can teach us a lot about the compromises that computer scientists everywhere have to make .
The gloomy anatomy rate and modest color gamut in GIFs are what make them , frankly , a fleck wish-wash for video . But arriving at a Libra between temporal and spatial resolution is something that all data processor scientists have to sell with . In this video , Tom Scott explains the BASIC of GIF file type and how their compromise led to serious filing cabinet encryption . They ’re more interesting than you might ’ve thought . [ Computerphile ]
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